Shorebreak waves, generally speaking, aren’t good for surfing. There’s nowhere to go when a wave breaks right on the sand, they’re typically more closed-out like a wall of water, and they crumble ...

The ocean is an intriguing and mysterious place. For every new species of sea creature we find, there are an untold number of others waiting to be discovered. But it isn't just sea life that has kept ...

A size comparison of the "Draupner Wave" to 3 school buses stacked horizontally on top of one another. On New Year’s Day 1995, a monstrous 80-foot wave in the North Sea slammed into the Draupner oil ...

Monstrous and deadly waves that arrive without warning have been recounted in fishing and sailing lore for more than a century. These so-called "rogue" or "freak" waves have been seen from cruise ...

A sigh of relief washes over the crew. The sun peeks out from the angry clouds. They made it, they think. The small fishing vessel survived amidst a storm of biblical proportions and unfathomably ...

For centuries, seafaring folks' reports of terrifyingly huge waves that appeared out of nowhere were dismissed as fantasy by those on dry land. Now, the existence of these "real sea monsters" that ...

Rogue waves, which are any waves considered to be at least two times the height of the tallest waves around them, can be terrifying to those working at sea. Long reported only anecdotally by sailors, ...

A 54-year-old man died after a “rogue wave” carried him into the ocean while he was at a tidal pool area with family in Hawaii, police said. Royden Daikawa of Hilo struggled to swim back to shore ...